hi

In Cheshire we called it wagging just like others have explained above.

In our area we had a Truant Officer ( who's name escapes me) and he used to know all the places where "waggers" would go when not at school.

No shopping malls in those days - it was usiually fishing down at the brook or at the station collecting train numbers.

Of course there used to be " jungle telegraph " and we would know when he was in the area and hide.

Happy days

Cheers

MikeL2